It's all so confusing: Warmist Andrew Freedman seems wildly inconsistent in his usage of the terms "weather" and "climate"

Why does cold have to persist for several decades before qualifying as "climate", but warmth qualifies as "climate" almost immediately?

Southwest Wildfires and Global Warming, Explained - Climate Central

[By Alyson Kenward and Andrew Freedman]  Retrospective analyses of historical variations in wildfire activity and climate show that the two are closely linked. Historical variations in climate can explain much of the large year-to-year and decade-to-decade variations in Western US fire activity. Thus, climate change is already increasing wildfire activity in the Western US.
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But climate is a dominant factor because the difference between years with large areas burned and years with small areas burned is not so much in the number of fires, but in the number of very large fires.

When climate conditions are right, a relatively small number of fires grow out of control and consume a lot more acreage.

Flashback:  Capital Weather Gang - Cold weather in a hot climate

[Freedman] ...should stories detailing heavy snows and record cold temperatures even mention that this weather is occurring in the context of a climate that is warming overall, with the 2000s going down in history as the warmest decade in the instrumental record? Or should they assume that the reader understands what most scientists have long maintained, which is that weather patterns will continue to vary tremendously, even as the climate warms over the longer term?
...Sometimes weather is just weather.